People
491
Academia
Carlos Braga
Former director, Europe
The World Bank
Janet Gannon
Corp. development director
Transcendia
Stuart Umpleby
Past president
American Cybernetics Society
Robert Swieringa
Accounting prof. emeritus
Cornell University
Tony Laing
Director, Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Men of Color Initiative
Joe Alutto
Provost, interim president
Ohio State
Mike Small
Illini golf coach
13-time Big Ten Coach of the Year
Jennifer Ollie
STEM program manager
Chicago Public Schools
Julia Azari
American presidency expert
Author, Marquette professor
Otho Tucker
Illini guard, 1972-76
Charter school CEO
Daniel Dias
Senior economist
Federal Reserve Board
Donald Johanson
Paleoanthropologist
Discovered Lucy skeleton
Russell Dupuis
Chair, Electro-Optics
Georgia Tech
David Goldberg
Founder, Threejoy Associates
UI professor emeritus
Eboo Patel
Faith advisor
Obama Administration
David Wrone
Author, historian, professor
Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Javier Cevallos
University president
Framingham State
Richard Powers
2019 Pulitzer Prize
Won 1989 ‘Genius’ grant
Joe Tanner
NASA astronaut
Flew 4 shuttle missions
Stan Ikenberry
UI’s 14th president, 1979-95
Longest-serving president
Phillip Sharp
Renowned geneticist, biologist
Shared 1993 Nobel Prize
Joshua Gorman
Smithsonian registrar
American History Museum
Emil Javier
Former minister of science
The Philippines
Tom Trone
Retired director/sales
John Deere
